Orange is not a colour, it's a state of mind

Another thing I saw posted on Twitter recently. Well, The Mister spotted it and read it out to me, thought it was quite a funny story and now I’m wondering what the other guy thought. Pokes at the English a bit too! (Looks like this is posted on some discussion site somewhere, not sure where or why, the person who posted it on Twitter posted just this image.) You can click to make it bigger if the text is too small …

Having to deal with people who are negative, either justified or not, is part of the process when you manage a community or social media accounts for a brand. Some great points if you’re new to this. 5 Rules for Dealing with a Negative Nancy.

It’s pretty tough to be on the end of vicious commentary and so often I’m unsure if these people even realize there’s a real human being at the other end. Would they speak to my face like that? (Note this is what I deal with sometimes at work, not personally, thankfully!)

“Many have asked whether the cozy veil of online anonymity mostly encourages well-intentioned truth telling or mostly emboldens people to act like assholes.”

Sometime later … this looks a bit like I got up from my chair and jumped on a boat. Actually I just walked down the road and leaned on the rail for a while to collect my thoughts. Contemplative times at work these last few weeks.

Now that we live here I love seeing these random compilations of a New Yorker’s experience of life as we start to identify with some of these. Laughed out loud at this ranking of subway trains! We’ve been on lots of them and currently commute for work via the 1 train and use the C a bit to start journeys uptown.